Charles Morton

The Last Ride (1932)

Cast: Dorothy Revier Tom Santschi Virginia Brown Faire Frank Mayo Francis Ford   

Tags: Detective Film Mystery Crime 

Length: 64min

Former silent-screen star Frank Mayo plays a big-city bootlegger at odds with gangster chieftain Tom Santschi, the man who's been hijacking his shipments. The cops decide not to get involved but instead remain on the sidelines, hoping that Mayo and...

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Outlaws of Santa Fe (1944)

Cast: Wally Vernon Howard P. Bretherton Walter Soderling Jack O'Shea Frank McCarroll   

Tags: Action Western 

Length: 56min

Western star Don "Red" Barry essays a dual role in Republic's Outlaws of Santa Fe. Actually, the two "characters" are one: Barry plays a reformed bank robber named Bob Hackett, who starts life anew as Bob Conroy. This he does to track down the...

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Check and Double Check (1930)

Cast: Charles J. Correll Max Steiner Duke Ellington Irene Rich Russell Powell   

Tags: Haunted House Film Musical Comedy Comedy Romance 

Length: 85min

Check and Double Check brought radio's highest-rated program to the big screen. Amos 'N' Andy were two black characters played by two white men, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll. Donning blackface, Gosden and Correll are seen as well as heard as...

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The Dawn Trail (1931)

Cast: William Christy Cabanne Harry Cohn Buck Jones Edward J. Le Saint Charles King   

Tags: Action Western 

Length: 60min

A fine early sound Western, this Buck Jones series entry from his Columbia period told the well-known story of a feud between cattle barons and sheep men. When Mart Denton (Charles Morton), son of a wealthy cattle man, kills a homesteader during a...

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Caught Short (1930)

Cast: Marie Dressler Eddie Cantor Polly Moran Greta Granstedt Anita Page   

Tags: Comedy Romance 

Length: 75min

Sparring landladies provide the focus of this comedy. The two women are constantly competing to take in the most boarders at their respective homes. Though outwardly jealous rivals, the women are actually best friends. The competition gets more...

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Four Sons (1928)

Cast: John Ford John Wayne June Collyer Robert Parrish George Meeker   

Tags: War Drama Drama Family Drama 

Length: 10rlmin

Long though lost, Four Sons reemerged in the 1960s, proving anew that the silent films of director John Ford were every bit as accomplished as his talkies. More "Germanic" in tone and texture than later Ford films, Four Sons is the story of the Bernle...

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Christina (1929)

Cast: Janet Gaynor William Howard Lucien Andriot Harry Cording Lucy Dorraine   

Tags: Romantic Drama Drama 

Length: 83min

This part-talkie (17 minutes of dialogue in its 83-minute running time) stars Janet Gaynor as Christina, the daughter of Dutch toymaker Niklaas (Rudolph Schildkraut). Much to her dad's dismay, Christina falls in love with sideshow huckster Jan...

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New Year's Eve (1929)

Cast: Mary Astor Henry Lehrman Stuart Erwin Earl Foxe Charles Morton   

Tags: Drama Crime Romance 

Length: 7rlmin

In this drama, an unemployed young woman who must support her younger brother pays a visit to a gambler who wants her body. However, he is murdered during her visit, and she is charged with the crime. But, the real killer is unmasked and dies in an...

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Cameo Kirby (1930)

Cast: Myrna Loy Irving Cummings Stepin Fetchit Robert Edeson Ed Brady   

Tags: Musical 

Length: 55min

This early talkie is the third version of the popular Booth Tarkington play. It is set in the mid 19th-century and centers upon a good-hearted riverboat gambler who takes on a group of criminals in New Orleans during Mardis Gras when he rushes in to...

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